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TIL The City of Sanibel Island was founded by 3 former CIA spies.

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x6k01 TIL that, during the Cold War, every infantry and armor battalion in the U.S Army had one officer trained to deploy the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), commonly known as the backpack nuke
Z86KY TIL when McDonald's closed all its restaurants in Iceland in 2009, a man decided to buy his last hamburger and fries to see how long it would take to decompose. 10 yrs later, curious observers can watch a livestream of the burger & fries from its current location in a glass cabinet in Snotra House.
R5xk7 TIL a 2011 study from UC Berkeley found that Mercedes and BMW drivers were nearly 5 times as likely to cut others off compared to drivers in non-luxury cars.
xV6jo TIL that the Soviets built the first Supersonic airliner (before Concorde) and it was a dangerous failure
dKPK TIL that sapphires and rubies are actually the same material, and only look different because of slight impurities.